Mike Ross
Mike Ross was a British-born trade unionist.
Ross was born in London. He fought in World War One, during which he was caught in a gas attack.[1]
Ross later joined the Communist Party, and visited Moscow with Jane Tabrisky, where he worked for the Soviet State Publishing Office for a year.[1]
Ross concealed his Communist involvement when he moved to the United States in 1933 and applied for citizenship.[1]
Ross ran the International Committee of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from its formation in the early 1950s.[2]
When the CIO merged with the AFL in 1955, Ross was appointed deputy to George Brown a head of the new AFL-CIO Department of Intrnational Affairs.[1] Although discomfited by this appointment Jay Lovestone had the advantage of knowing about Ross's concealed Communist past.
In 1957 Ross succeeded Brown as head of the International Affairs Department, although Jay Lovestone continued to play a more active role in international work from his New York office.[3]
Ross died in December 1963. Lovestone succeeded him as head of the International Affairs Department.[4]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.287.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.223.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.2870.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.335.
